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Hosea 2:19-20
I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.
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Ephesians 5:26-27
that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.
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Isaiah 54:5
For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.
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Ezekiel 44:22
They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
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Leviticus 21:13-15
“‘ He shall take a wife in her virginity.He shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife.He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.’”
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Colossians 1:28
We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
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John 3:29
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
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1 Corinthians 4 15
For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
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Psalms 45:10-11
Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.
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2 Corinthians 4 14
knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.
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Genesis 24:2-5
Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had,“ Please put your hand under my thigh.I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”The servant said to him,“ What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?”
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Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
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Galatians 4:17-19
They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—
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Isaiah 62:4-5
You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
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Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
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Genesis 24:58-67
They called Rebekah, and said to her,“ Will you go with this man?” She said,“ I will go.”They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men.They blessed Rebekah, and said to her,“ Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes and looked. Behold, there were camels coming.Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she got off the camel.She said to the servant,“ Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said,“ It is my master.” She took her veil, and covered herself.The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
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Galatians 4:11
I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
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1 Thessalonians 2 11
As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
